Category: Retro News
The ZX Spectrum was one of the greatest 8-bit micros of the day and, along with the C64, was one of the predominant 8-bit gaming platform in the UK during the ’80s and ’90s. With any popular platform, publishers were always looking to increase software sales and one of the most popular and lucrative genres was the arcade conversion. Coders…
You may remember Monty’s Honey Run, Monty and the Temple of Lost Souls and Ooze. All these games are by Andy Johns, and all were very well-received by the Spectrum Community. Andy Johns is back with some fantastic News about an Arcade Game Designer title he is working on, in fact, it’s not too far away from a release! The…
Another ZX Spectrum game has been recovered by Planet Sinclair website, this one is called “Skeet Shooting”, which is an adaptation of Tire al Plato by P.F.P. Chaves (1985), and was featured in VideoSpectrum Issue 13. Download: Tiro aos pratos.SNA Website: Planeta Sinclair
The traditional Retro Challenge is happening again throughout the month of April. The contest asks you to “do something interesting with an old computer, and blog about it for a month”. It is a great way to take that old project from the drawer and finish it. It could be a hardware project, a computer restoration, a new application or game,…
Regular readers to this site will know that I recently reviewed the conversion of Street Fighter II for the Commodore and found it, shall we say, somewhat lacking. Amiga owners desperate for a decent slice of beat ’em up action were going to need to look elsewhere. Fortunately, that didn’t turn out to be too far, as it happens. Team 17,…
Way back in 2015 we shared News about a new game called Aviator Arcade II, announcing an early preview release. Aviator Arcade II is a shoot’em up packed with action and amazing graphics. After almost three years, the game is now complete, and Mark Hindsbo is working to finish the changes for release on cartridge and floppy disk, as announced by…
Released in 1985 by Datasoft, Zorro is an arcade platform game based on Johnston McCulley’s masked vigilante, released in 1985 for the ZX Spectrum, C64 and Amstrad range of 8-bit computers. It’s another game that I remember playing as a child, but was never able to actually finish for one reason or another. All is not well in the pueblo…
Golden Wing by CopperSky is an Amiga Shmup, similar in many ways to Stardust and the classic Arcade game Asteroids. Blast your way through enemies and asteroids throughout each level, in addition, you can collect items that provide extra shields, power-ups and extra lives. Minimum hardware requirements are: Amiga 500 with 512 Kb chip + 512 Kb slow RAM. The…
Among the many CSDb releases that show up every day, sometimes we see something that stands out for many reason. It can be technical excellence, skilled coding, or beautiful art. Sometimes there are some that excel on all of above! That’s the case of Game Art Beyond by Bliss. The program itself is a slide show that presents incredible graphics…
Plumbers Don’t Wear Ties is an adult-oriented “romantic comedy” graphic adventure game developed and published by Kirin Entertainment for the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer. The game received a lot of negative attention for its abysmal production value, nonsensical story-line, poor acting and humour, and for primarily being presented as a slide show despite being advertised as a full motion video game. As a result,…
